things that you enjoy despite...

[sev]

name things you've kind of liked despite a quality that usually gives said thing a bad rep or makes it a widely considered (at least on some level) "shameful" thing to like - qualities might be something like a really bad fanbase or something else that tends to ruin it for a lot of other people

i thought avatar: the last airbender was good

i also haven't played this in a long time and don't know how i'd feel about it if i played it now or if it was ever actually good, (i'd need to replay) but i thought kingdom hearts wasn't a bad game and liked it when i played it. the fanbase is really naruto-tier though

[ZennyPLUS]

Liking an anime like Clannad, cause the last thing I thought I'd watch was a moe blob show. But it's definitely cute and the characters grow on you.

[trent bortknob]

i like the bands mindless self indulgence, boston, coldplay, tool, coheed and cambria, radiohead, every time i die, incubus, system of a down, and green day. there's something about these bands that makes it embarrassing to admit that i like them. when people find out i like said band, my next sentence begins with "yeah, i like them but....."

i like cassettes. they have such a bad rep but i really like them. i like the way they look, how they sound, and etc. it's part nostalgia and aesthetic appeal. and they're analog.

i like all of they might be giants' albums, from their first to their most recent. most people started thinking they were boring after "apollo 18", when they got a band to back them up, but i love all of their records regardless.

i still think the flying spaghetti monster is funny, even though most people on the internet are really sick of the joke by now

also donnie darko, free jazz, burritos, inspiration point, fork balloon sports, cards in the spokes, automatic biographies, kites, kung fu, trophies, banana peels we've slipped on and egg shells we've tippy toed over

[Sinitron]

FSM is cool because it's a big fuck you to religious bias in schools and fags who whine about global warming but don't understand it

MSI makes funny music sometimes, coldplay is cool, radiohead can be cool? system of a down has an ok track or two but the gayest fans ever

i like playing terran in starcraft even though two thirds of the people who play the game whine about terran being overpowered so there

[lenko]

martial arts movies, pearl jam, sonic adventure 2, 'chill out music' like those stupid buddha bar compilation CDs, tenacious D, funk, j-rock

i liked the watchmen movie. it's the only good thing zach snyder's ever done. the direction was odd in places (slow motion fight scenes) but i thought it was a solid film and a much more faithful adaptation than we could have ended up with. it was never going to do for superhero films what the source material did for comics, so i'm glad they had some fun with it

i have a soft spot for dragon ball z even though anyone without nostalgia for it probably thinks it is complete garbage. this goes for a lot of things though

i don't get why you put avatar as potentially shameful, it was really well received and generally recognized as something with actual time and effort into it - unless it's the whole 'americanime' thing or season 3 (which was really badly paced) that you're talking about.

[Sinitron]

etemon was cool but aside from that digimon was GAY AS HELL DAWG

[trent bortknob]

FSM is cool because it's a big fuck you to religious bias in schools and fags who whine about global warming but don't understand it

MSI makes funny music sometimes, coldplay is cool, radiohead can be cool? system of a down has an ok track or two but the gayest fans ever

yeah fsm is cool in principle, but there are just a lot of annoying people who never shut up about it and i don't like being associated with them really

i've only heard one msi album but i do enjoy it, though most of the time if i meet someone who likes them, MSI is the only band that we both like. i don't relate to their fanbase much. coldplay is cool but they've made so much bad music, their new album, that album x&y, etc, that when i say i like them i have to classify that it's only their first two albums. i don't like saying i like radiohead because they're the most over-hyped band in the world. if i talk to someone who worships them i usually get into a conversation about how "amazing" they are, and if i talk to someone who hates them i have to get into a conversation about how radiohead is over-hyped, makes stupid electronic music (most of these people liked radiohead as a rock group more than what they did with "kid a" and later) and how i'm a tool for liking them. system of a down and tool both have in general terrible fanbases. tool fans are like fans of rush and dream theater, they think that something isn't good music unless it's in a wacky time signature or is otherwise incredibly difficult to play. system of a down fans are just system of a down fans. i like system, especially their first record, but really. they aren't THAT good. rhyming "die" with "sky" and "high" a hundred times in every song doesn't make you a good lyricist. serj and daron have cool voices and they were really inventive with the whole crossover of metal and middle eastern music (although mr. bungle had been doing that for a while), but that's it.

[lenko]

tool fans are like fans of rush and dream theater, they think that something isn't good music unless it's in a wacky time signature or is otherwise incredibly difficult to play

haha. i know a few people like this, judging songs purely on technicality. my friend once made me sit through a 30 minute long dream theater track, insisting that they were the modern pink floyd, and i can barely remember anything interesting happening aside from tempo changes, time signatures that only 3 other people have even bothered using and guitar wankery.

[trent bortknob]

i mean i just like a lot of band's music, i'm not as picky as i used to be with bands. it shouldn't be bad to like any band but people always associate your personality with what kind of music you like. for me they're pretty separate. i like jazz but i'm not an old person, i like some underground hip hop but i'm not some ghetto ass kid. so i don't know why it seems like if i opt to liking bands like tool and king crimson, people start to think i'm one of those guys who only likes prog, who only likes music that is complex, etc. this happens a lot. people shouldn't be so quick to judge

[ExistingViolation]

Came in here to defend digimon. When youre 10, that show is awesome, but its awesomeness did not scale with age. 

System of a down does have a terrible terrible fanbase. I was a minor fan before the 3rd album and i could not bring it up in conversation without somebody going all uncomfortably crazy.

[naturally]

-anime in general (namely inuyasha, death note, haruhi, etc)
-vocaloid
-the nightmare before christmas
-fight club
-scott pilgrim
-4chan
-tumblr
-final fantasy
-halo
-japanese rhythm games (ddr, taiko, pop'n music)
-every fighting game (they're all assholes)
-silent hill (most of the fans i've seen are just really pretentious about it)
-SONIC THE HEDGEHOGGGGGGG

kingdom hearts

this, huge. except i do play it again pretty often 'cause it was my favourite game growing up.

and learning japanese/wanting anything to do with japan. i get so much shit for it it's rediculous. it's easily the worst thing in terms of 'fanbase' 'cause whenever someone finds out i study it/know some they always just say i'm a faggot or something and need to stop watching anime. i could easily write an essay's worth of words about how much it makes me just want to stop.


i'm sure there's more but i can't think of anything else right now.

[ZennyPLUS]

-anime in general (namely inuyasha, death note, haruhi, etc)
-vocaloid
-the nightmare before christmas
-fight club
-scott pilgrim
-4chan
-tumblr
-final fantasy
-halo
-japanese rhythm games (ddr, taiko, pop'n music)
-every fighting game (they're all assholes)
-silent hill (most of the fans i've seen are just really pretentious about it)
-SONIC THE HEDGEHOGGGGGGG

kingdom hearts

this, huge. except i do play it again pretty often 'cause it was my favourite game growing up.

and learning japanese/wanting anything to do with japan. i get so much shit for it it's rediculous. it's easily the worst thing in terms of 'fanbase' 'cause whenever someone finds out i study it/know some they always just say i'm a faggot or something and need to stop watching anime. i could easily write an essay's worth of words about how much it makes me just want to stop.


i'm sure there's more but i can't think of anything else right now.

KH was a great game and well received, I don't see any shame in liking it. Because it has Disney characters? Haters gonna hate, bro.

Came in here to defend digimon. When youre 10, that show is awesome, but its awesomeness did not scale with age.

I don't think anything you loved as a child really shrinks in appeal with age.

I guess I could say I'm somewhat embarrassed by my growing Transformers collection, but they're great for stop motion.

[Kött]

Well, I guess I'm another one of those to say anime that doesn't contain torrents of blood or other forms of those things that are considered "manly" by the broad masses... It's a mix of shame and joy, even though I know that no one's watching.

Other than that:
-Touhou (especially music-wise)
-Family Guy
-piracy
-spending way too much time on the internet
-and finally being a fucking German

[creamcorn]

children cartoons/shows (sesame street etc)
i enjoy wearing thick rimmed glasses because they look good on my face, but i hate being associated with the gay-ass hipster-scene
small boobs
silence
not shaving
indian/arab music


and i like a lot of shit that has been mentioned in this thread (BUT I LIKE IT IN THE GOOD WAY. NOT IN THE WAY THOSE OTHER LOSERS LIKE IT. I AM SPECIAL)

[naturally]

KH was a great game and well received, I don't see any shame in liking it. Because it has Disney characters? Haters gonna hate, bro.

i don't hate kingdom hearts, i just don't like the rep it gets 'cause of it's fanbase.

also
-portal
-maplestory (i guess i don't really play it anymore though)
-deviantart
-daft punk
-AMVs

[creamcorn]

i wonder who the first brave soul is gonna be who steps out and admits he really likes hentai

[naturally]

i like hentai

[creamcorn]

what kind?

[naturally]

hentai manga mostly & pixiv pics. i really don't like hentai animation though nor do i see the appeal.

itt stusader turns into wac

[tmk]

I'm trying to cut "I like ____, but" out of my life entirely, but I still don't often admit that I happen to like the dave matthews band and no, I am not typing this inside a frat house